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Nauti - that's a nice buck!!!!
Congrats
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Biggest deer I ever saw in 8f......and in my backyard. To this day it's the biggest rack and body of a deer I've ever seen.
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Not for the working man, holy moly that's some big Yankee $$$$ to shoot a penned in deer. Clients look happy so I guess to some 10 grand to shoot 3 deer?? I'd be purchasing me some black angus fillet and some Tbones. LOL NO harm intended, so far it's a free country!!
It's certainly not for me or my style of hunting, but that being said I pay upwards of $15,000 in property taxes on all my properties, and maintenance can run anywhere from 2-3k per year. Big projects (cabin roof, deck, culvert work, new food plots) every 5-10 years can be 10-15k..........
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So who's been visiting this huge community scrape? Camera has been on it for a month and it tells the whole story. 10 bucks total that actually worked the scrape in the past month.
Other deer visited it but i didnt include them. Six of these bucks were in the past 9 days. Enjoy!
Really awesome video - thanks for taking the time to edit it for all of us to enjoy!!!
Be safe in the field - good luck,
Chris
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Here's my buck from last night. I was seeing some doe moving around, but no chasing from small bucks like I've seen over the past couple of days. They were very relaxed, in fact three of them pinned me in my stand for twenty minutes feeding within 30 yards. After they left around 6:15 this guy comes from the other direction. I saw him at 70 yards, got my bow up, and when he hit a shooting lane at 25 yards I let fly. It was a very slight quartering toward shot, but dead still with his head canted away from me; the arrow went in at the front of the ribs and exited where you see. Clean double lung, and he ran all of 60 or 70 yards.
Back out this morning to put a buddy on a deer.
Awesome deer - thanks for sharing!
Chris
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This is my idea of Morbid Obesity! Lol!
Think it's a couple years ago...
Maybe we need to do more deer pen projects along with salmon!...lol!
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This is the 10th time I've seen this pic in the past 3-4 years. I think it was shot on a fenced in preserve a few years ago
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I found a dead deer in a small 1/4 acre pond with no apparent trauma. I am gauging the deer (doe) to be 1.5 or 2.5 yrs old. Any idea why or how?
How sloped is the bank? Maybe she just drowned b/c she couldn't get out? I do like Nauti's idea above though.
Keep us posted - there's about 200 different things it could be.
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Fantastic deer! I hunted 9h today and lots of good action. Congrats on your Wyoming brute
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Lots of movement tonight Wayne County. Saw a nice 8 cruising but too far for a shot and eight doe. I've had good luck in heavy winds, even hunting from stand. Sturgis will argue with me but screw him...lol. Just starting to see a few more rubs tonight.....good luck folks
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Were they moving last night prior to today's front? I had a chance to sit the last hour but with the heat and the fact that it's near some standing water, I passed. Grilled some big steaks for a visitor from Germany instead and watched the sun go down from the porch. Great evening.
Sat last night and had my first skunk of the year. I heard some action in a thicket in front of me, but they never showed their faces.
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Rolmops - that was pretty weak.
Your logic is akin to accepting someone who is poor stealing a carton of cigarettes from the local grocer b/c they can make a buck selling them on the local street corner and then making sure the thief has a permit to sell goods.
Breaking the law is breaking the law....period
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IMG_1476622642.863088.jpg the only deer I saw all morning was a small 4point a guy hit last night few properties over that expired on the property I huntSent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United
looks gut shot? That's too bad
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Great job - any deer with the bow is an accomplishment. Welcome to the club.
Be safe,
Chris
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Only saw one across the ravine. To far for a shot.
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Thanks for the update!
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Love Sturgis - his website is great
Weather, weather, weather......hunt the trailing end after a front and a cold snap.
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I hear ya on the tension of a no blood track job...never a fun night! Had my own last night as well. Shot a big doe at 30 yards just before the end of shooting light. Knew I put a good shot on her, and was able to recover the arrow right where I shot her...clean pass thru. Plenty of blood on the arrow and some in the field, but couldn't find any where she went into the woods. My son and I looked in the woods for over an hour without spotting any blood whatsoever. I thought I heard her crash, but couldn't find her anywhere. Decided to leave her overnight and come back this morning...which was nerve racking given I could hear 'yotes in the woods howling before we even left.
Went back this morning, still couldn't find any blood anywhere. Started looking around where I thought I heard her crash...and there she was. No more than 50-60 yards from where she was shot. Luckily no 'yote damage, and found the reason for lack of blood. Perfect entry hole, hit both lungs, but when the Rage came out, it brought some of the intestines with it, which was clogging up the exit hole. Luckily no nasty stuff inside, and meat looks like it'll be good to go...thank goodness for the cold night!
Next time this happens, take a deep breath and walk in reverse back from where you found the deer to your shooting spot. I guarantee you will find blood, hairs, tracks, etc. It will make you a better tracker for the next time.
Congrats on your deer and the discipline that you had to go back and search until you found her!!
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I think it's a raccoon jaw, missing the front incisors
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Well I've been hanging on to this for a couple days, but my buddy finally made it official. Here's a pic of his monster buck shot Friday evening from the ground in Newfane. This is the third season he was after this buck. He has many pictures, the sheds from two years ago, and has seen it 4 times. It scores roughly 210" non typical, has 23 score able points, and dressed at 209 lbs. After seeing this years rack, he decided this was the only deer he would harvest this year and he got it done.
Hilarious - this is the sixth time I've seen this pic today from everyone texting it to me.
Absolute deer of a lifetime - congrats to the hunter!
Chris
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my thoughts exactly..an over used vagee
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Absolutely hilarious
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Great job on the buck
Thanks for sharing,
Chris
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Rain is just about to let up for the evening sit!
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Last night I had tons of great action between 3 and about 5 PM right before the rain, with deer and turkeys galore on the prowl.. Once it started raining it died right down.
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I'm with you on the being "affected deeply" on a wounded buck laying there with an arrow in a poor, non vital hit. I was so affected 2 years ago I haven't been in the field since. I have hunted with the bow for 40 years. Have taken lots of deer, wounded one i didnt recover, but this was different. I did recover this deer, not like i wanted to though. Don't know if it's my age or what, but I felt terrible remorse when the deer fell on the spot at 30 yards, but the arrow only broke the spine and he lay there crawling away by front legs. As I became shaken and in haste by what had happened, the buck was able to crawl behind a log into a hollow even further away. I tried 3 more attempts to arrow him again from my stand. Didn't happen. Hit the log... hit the ground... hit him once more nearly in the same spot. Now I have no more broadheads to launch, and I sat there waiting, hopefully an artery hit would have him go to sleep. To say I felt like just wishing I hadn't even gone to hunt that day is an understatement, and that is not how I like to end a day of what is something I cherish as my chance to rejuvinate. I sat there for an hour and no difference in the deers alertness. So I slowly climbed down, moved towards him searching for one of the arrows in the ground that could still be used to finish him.
I found one, cleaned it off and I looked into that deers sole. I felt like I was moving in slow mothion, watching the buck...fumbling with the arrow cleaning it, and putting it on the string. The buck was only 5 or 10 yards from me and I could hear him, I could see his shaking anxiety, I could feel his impending doom, and I was part of all of it for what had happened.
I finished him with that arrow from the ground, but not without terrible remorse, as he gasped for the last breath. I was not proud of that hunt, and worst of all it was my last one so far, and it is still a deeply affecting day. Learned a lot that day about something inside of me, and to be even more respectful than ever of that animal in my sights, I should have waited, I should have let him walk, the out of form shot I took was stupid. On the range, it was easy always shooting perfect form. In the field, it's not that way. I didn't practice that out of form shot from a stand and a tree it's attached to.
I consider myself a good hunter, and a good shot with the bow, but I have learned that I also have changed due to that experience.
I have to get back into it again, but I sure do feel differently than I did when I was a young hunter, and success was more important than the experience back then. Luckily I was successful most of the time and then the experience seemed to be fulfilled by that. Now, well, I just gotta get back out there and enjoy the experience again, even if I don't take a shot on another buck that walks right by me. I guess I might be just a "softer" hunter now. Hope everyone is successful and safe this season. Enjoy the experience and remember it's nature, and you are a part of it's purpose. Have a great hunt everyone!
Mark
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Mark - incredible story, I could actually feel the pain that you were feeling through your narrative. I agree with Tileman, you are not only a better hunter, but a better person. Your story is humbling to even the hardest of sportsmen/women.
Be safe,
Chris
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Well, I'm gonna make you guys sick. I take the bow out the week before and look at it. Then my first hunt is an evening and I throw 3 arrows in a target the size of a fist. I couldn't tell ya the last time I wounded one and consider myself successful just about every year. I don't shoot over 30yds and wouldn't want to.
To each his own and I'm one confident sob with my bow.
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The key in your quote is you know your shot and know your distance limits given your experience. Nothing wrong with that.
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I think another issues with range is guys who don't use rangefinders or get that fever when a deer walks in and it's either further or closer resulting in a miss. And also the guys who say 35 but don't have the ethics when a booner walks in at 50 and they try and hail marry one in
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Agree 100%. I have a buddy that wounds a deer almost once a year, and I know several seasons when it's multiple deer that he's wounded!!! It' almost a joke to him, which is very, very sad given that he gets buck fever the minute he sees bone on a head. Needless to say, he doesn't hunt my properties anymore.
I had a nice ten which I ranged at 45 yards last year. I did all I could to hold off and wait. I must admit I wanted to throw an arrow, given the phrase "you can't kill 'em if you don't shoot..." but I waited and watched him walk off into the sunset since that's way beyond my level of comfort.
Two weeks later, he was back at 15 yards and now he resides in my belly and on my wall.
Good luck in the field,
Chris
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Funny you say that - I have the exact same problem Dan.